Over at Mobile Advance continues their 10 Questions interview series of people involved in and around mobile ministry activities.
The latest of these interviews is with Tim Jore (Distant Shores Media, Door 43). Here’s a snippet of that interview:
7. What is one hard earned lesson in ministry you would want to pass on to others here?
“The future of the global church is Open.” We started to realize how severely copyright restrictions on discipleship resources hinder the spiritual growth of the global church shortly after getting into mobile ministry. We had to derail a key mobile ministry project because there would be no way to obtain the legal permission to use the copyrighted resources as needed, or manage the restrictions for thousands of languages with potentially hundreds of millions of content consumers and creators. This realization is the direct motivation for the launch of the Door43 project (http://door43.org/) and the vision of “unrestricted discipleship resources in every language, and on any mobile phone”…